Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-28
THE NEWS.

The Mammouth rink at Gallipolis, o.
was destroyed by fire Sunday morning.
John Myers aged Is years was killed
by locomotive at Columbus, o.
George Stops, a prominent farmer of
Point Pleasant, Ind, has mysteriously
disappeared.
Clermont county Democrats generally
are disgusted with the nomination of
Powell, at Cleveland.
The Prohibition candidate for Cover
nor of Kentucky claims that he will get
fifty thousand votes.
Brigadier General VIM Mckee Dunn,
U A, retired, died at his residence,
Fairfax county. Va, Sunday, aged u.
Michael Helferick, of Springfield, o.
fell or threw himself from cliff, dis
tance of about 40 feet. breaking his neck.
Ell Parkes, of Charlotte, Mich, was
torn to pieces by mad bull, and his re-
mains found scattered about the prem
ises.
Rev. W. II. Gatlin, a colored preacher
was shot and killed Saturday, by officers
who were trying to arrest him, at Stark
vile, Miss.
There are more places in Providence,
r. l.. where liquor is sold in spite of the
prohibition law than there were when
license was In force.
W. J. McGarigle, the convicted Chica-
go boodler, while visiting his family in
charge of the Sheriff, escaped and has
not yet been recaptured.
Samuel Tschappat. Mayor of Claring-
ton, O., was arrested in Milwaukee,
charged with perjury as witness in sa-
loon prosecutions in his town.
Lee Shellenberger, convicted at Ne.
daughter, was taken from Jail by a mob
and hanged in the court yard.
Nellie Wolburt, aged fifteen, of Ironton, O.,
died from an overdose of laudanum, taken, it is
supposed, to induce sleep.
Richard H. Payne, paymaster's clerk at the
Portsmouth navy yard, is under arrest charged
with the embezzlement of So, 200.
Ebenezer Stanyard was sentenced to be
hanged November Is next for the murder of
Alice Hancox at Youngstown, o.
The Warren Powder Mill, at Thomaston,
Me-, blew up Monday George Shepherd, aged
thirty, was literally torn to pieces.
drunk, stabbed his aunt to death and attacked
and badly wounded his wife and nephew.
On Sunday morning physicians at the Gin
cinnati Hospital removed spoon from the
stomach of patient by surgical operation.
Wallace Phillips, the boy who was shot in
the head by the cowboys of Sells circus during
their recent performance at Clinton, Ia, died
Monday.
A washout occurred on the Erie road, two
miles west of Cohocton, N. Y. Twenty -one
cars of cheese went down the embankment and
we're totally wrecked.
DR.. E. D. Standiford, one of the wealthiest
and best known of Kentucky, died at his home
in Louisville on Tuesday. He was prominent
in political and business circles.
The oil producers of the Northwestern Ohio
field are called to meet in Findlay August 2,
to discuss measures for relief from the exac-
Henry Stottman was arrested in Cincinnati
charged with setting fire to the stables of the
Cincinnati Coal and Coke Company. He is
half witted and has a mania far arson.
A Blaine man at Toledo says he has counted
267 delegates opposed to the Endorsement of
Senator Sherman for the Presidency. There
will be 723 delegates in the convention.
The Methodists of the New Albany lind
district have purchased one hundred and forty
acres adjoining West Baden Springs, and will
open an encampment similar to Chautauqua.
s. B. Buckner, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Kentucky, has issued secret and
confidential circular appeals for help in the
contest which closes August L. He wants
votes.
severe electric storm Saturday in the east,
which was accompanied by heavy rain, wrecked
houses and barns, prostrated telegraph wires, |
and did other damage. Two women were kill |
ed by falling house.
At Jeffersonville, Ind, William Reynolds |
while in the saloon of "French John" used a |
bowie knife with frightful effect on two men
and two women. The injuries of one of the
women are thought to be fatal.
Miss There's Wall, a member of one of the |
most prominent families in East Tennessee,
committed suicide at her fathers house, near
Sweetwater, by jumping into a cistern. She
had been disappointed in love, and before sui
Gliding drew check to pay funeral expenses